Shares of energy companies fell sharply as oil futures declined ahead of the Federal Reserve's meeting. The U.S. dollar is hovering around multiyear highs against a basket of rivals. A Russian tanker ...

An estimated 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil had spilled into the Kerch Strait after two Russian ships were seriously ...

Russian tanker breaks apart in Black Sea storm, spilling 4,300 tons of fuel oil near Crimea's Kerch Strait.

The Volgoneft-212 was carrying thousands of barrels of oil when it ran aground late Sunday and damaged its hull. A second ...

Hungary and Slovakia – both with populist, pro-Russian leaders -- on December 16 blocked a proposed package of European Union ...

Two Russian tankers carrying thousands of tons of fuel were badly damaged in stormy weather near the Black Sea over the weekend, leading to an oil spill, according to Russian state media.

A Russian oil tanker split apart during a storm on Sunday, while another one ended up in distress in the strait that separates Russia from the Crimean Peninsula that Moscow's troops seized and annexed ...

Russian state media TASS reported that the Volgoneft 212 tanker had its bow torn off in the storm. One of the vessel’s crew members died in the incident, it said. Volgoneft 239 was also damaged and ...

Russia said Monday that fuel oil has leaked into the Kerch Strait, off the coast of the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, after two ageing oil tankers were caught in a storm.

On Sunday, two Russian tankers in the Kerch Strait on the Black Sea caused a disaster, leaking several thousand tons of heavy ...

Together, the two ships were carrying almost 9,000 tons of mazut, a heavy, low-grade fuel oil. Social media footage from the ...

Environmentalists are warning of a potential disaster posed by two Russian oil tankers that ran aground in the ecologically sensitive waters off Ukraine's Moscow-annexed Crimean coastline as Russian ...